Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who chops wood; specifically, one who cuts down trees, as a lumberman.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Enrico Piccolomini was a wood-chopper on the Kennan Ranch.
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Thus, the poor telegrapher may develop into an excellent wood-chopper.
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This was a fine adjustment, for by working hammer-and - tongs through a twelve-hour day, after freight had been deducted from the selling price of the wood in Los Angeles, the wood-chopper received one dollar and sixty cents.
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Goodwives affirm that it is no rarity to encounter at nightfall, in secluded nooks of the forest, a black man with the air of a carter or a wood-chopper, wearing wooden shoes, clad in trousers and a blouse of linen, and recognizable by the fact, that, instead of a cap or hat, he has two immense horns on his head.
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Had I not two shoulders like a giant, and two strong hands to work with? and had I not, in sooth, even applied for a place as wood-chopper in Möllergaden in order to earn my daily bread?
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There is another class of labourers who make themselves particularly conspicuous in the streets of Vienna, and that is the “holzhacker,” or wood-chopper.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France
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R----, which numbered some really very worthy and intelligent members, but of course included some that were otherwise, among whom was a silly young fellow, who had mistaken his proper calling -- (he should have been a wood-chopper), and was suffering under an attack _at_ medicine.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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Zechariah Merica, who, Wm. said, was a "low ignorant man, not above a common wood-chopper, and owned no other slave property than William."
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But as the years went on many men came to the forest and felled the trees, not with axes but with huge saws; and so Hans was turned away, for no one wanted a wood-chopper now.
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The wood-chopper frequently squanders this precious store.
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